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It was a reality show in 2005 that catapulted the Ultimate Fighting Championship and mixed martial arts into the mainstream with the debut of The Ultimate Fighter on Spike TV. Bellator MMA launched its reality series, Fight Master: Bellator MMA, in June. Invicta FC will join the promotions with reality shows in the near future.
Invicta FC president Shannon Knapp made the announcement following Invicta FC 6 on July 13...

After her submission win over Allanna Jones two months ago, Fallon Fox now knows when she'll be back in action. Fox will meet Ashlee Evans-Smith for the Championship Fighting Alliance women's featherweight tournament title on Oct. 12.

Paul Daley (169.5 pounds) and Lukasz Chlewicki (169.2) are on weight for their welterweight headliner at Saturday's Cage Warriors 57 event.
Both fighters made weight at today's official weigh-ins.
Cage Warriors 57 takes place at Echo Arena in Liverpool, Merseyside, England. The main card streams live and free on MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com) following prelims on Facebook...

Suffering through a five-fight losing streak, former WEC/UFC featherweight Leonard Garcia recognizes what he’s been doing wrong.
“I had a couple fights where I had been doing the same thing I’d done before and wasn’t moving forward with things I should have,” he said. “I was relying too much on landing the big punch.”
Not only does he feel like he was doing the wrong thing in fights, but also in training, thus Garcia has been working with a new team...

Yasuhiro Urushitani has been forced off September's ONE FC 10 card, and Andrew Leone has stepped in as a replacement and now will fight Shinichi Kojima for the organization's inaugural flyweight title, officials recently announced.

Ray Sefo has taken a temporary leave of absence from his job as World Series of Fighting president to focus on his job as World Series of Fighting fighter.
Sefo is scheduled to compete against Dave Huckaba on the Aug. 10 WSOF 4 event in Ontario, California, and the match will be the 100th combat sports bout of his long career.
For a while, it's been his goal to reach triple-digits, and with about a month to go until the opening bell, it's time to get serious in training...

A light-heavyweight bout between Anthony Johnson (15-4) and Mike Kyle (20-9-1) will headline World Series of Fighting's fifth event, officials today announced.
WSOF 5 takes place Sept. 14 at Revel Atlantic City in New Jersey, and the main card airs on NBC Sports Network after online prelims.
Tickets for the event start at $29 and go on sale Friday. It's WSOF's second event at the Atlantic City resort...

As a reminder, you can watch a live and free stream of Saturday's Cage Warriors 57 event on MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
The event features a welterweight headliner between big-show veteran Paul Daley (32-12-2) and Lukasz Chlewicki (10-2-1).
Cage Warriors 57 takes place at Echo Arena in Liverpool, England, which hosts its first show since "Cage Warriors 21: Enter the Wolfslair" in 2006. The main card is available in North American on MMAjunkie.com, and on www.cagewarriors.tv elsewhere. Prelims stream on Facebook, though the lineup is subject to change...

Jessica Penne, Miriam Nakamoto, Leslie Smith and Jennifer Maia each took home post-fight bonus awards for their performances at Saturday's Invicta FC 6 card.
Penne picked up the "Submission of the Night" bonus, Nakamoto won "Knockout of the Night," and Smith and Maia were awarded "Fight of the Night." Invicta officials announced the winners following the event, though bonus amounts were not released...

Top women's featherweight fighter Cristiane "Cyborg" Santos (12-1) added another belt to her trophy case, as she earned Invicta Fighting Championships' inaugural featherweight belt with a fourth-round stoppage of Marloes Coenen (21-6).
The bout served as the main event of Saturday's "Invicta FC 6: Cyborg vs. Coenen" event, which took place at Ameristar Casino Hotel in Kansas City, Mo., and aired on pay-per-view.
As expected in the heavily anticipated rematch, Santos fired heavy right hands to open, but Coenen slipped underneath them and moved into the clinch. Santos eventually pulled free from the hold and looked to strike before Coenen brought her back into the position. Santos scored a toss from the hold and looked to unleash strikes, but a game Coenen defended well from her back and earned stand-up. Coenen tried to drag Santos to the floor late in the round, but "Cyborg" defended well and remained on her feet before scoring an impressive suplex late in the opening round...

While it’s been seven months since her last fight, former Strikeforce women’s 145-pound champion Marloes “Rumina” Coenen is not worried about the layoff.
“My entire career has been time off over and over again. It was always hard for me to get fights, so for me it’s no problem,” Coenen told MMAWeekly.com.
“I’ve been setting up my own gym in Amsterdam and then training in the East Netherlands. In preparation for this fight, I stayed with my parents for weeks so I could be focused and train a lot with my time.”

Nick Diaz is settled up with the Nevada State Athletic Commission but still owes California following his first venture as an MMA promoter.
Diaz recently paid $19,500 to the NSAC in the third and final installment of a $79,500 bill owed to the commission for his second marijuana suspension, NSAC Executive Director Keith Kizer wrote in an email to MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com).
However, he has yet to submit a final report and pay taxes to the California State Athletic Commission for War MMA, which took place June 22 in his home town of Stockton, Calif...

Just three days before its next event, Invicta Fighting Championships has seen another change to its card.
Visa issues will force Canadian fighter Charmaine Tweet (4-3) out of her featherweight fight against Ediane Gomes (10-2) on the main card of Invicta FC 6. Stepping in to face Gomes will be Tamikka Brents (2-0). Promotion officials late Wednesday confirmed a report of the injury from MMARising.com...

With the official addition of four fights to the preliminary card, the next World Series of Fighting lineup is complete. Included among the fights is a new bout between Reign MMA's Lew Polley and Hans Stringer.

Texas native Paul Buentello will try to make it four straight when he headlines Legacy FC 22 in front of his home crowd later this summer.
Buentello (32-15) meets Marcus Sursa (12-8) in a light heavyweight bout to headline the Aug. 23 show in Lubbock, Texas. Legacy Fighting Championship officials recently announced the show, which will have a six-fight main card that airs live on AXS TV...